English 101 05 Feb 2013 Do Video Games Promote Violence? Video games are being blamed more and more for violent acts people cause after playing them in extreme amounts. These violent video games are becoming more popular around the world among children‚ teens‚ and young adults. These games promote aggressive acts like shootings‚ theft‚ and drug use. As video games get more sophisticated and realistic‚ it becomes more like the real thing which desensitizes people to the violence‚ blood‚ and gore.
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Don´t Do Drugs The drug empire is growing is an article that New York Time pubished in may 11th 2012 and it says. People use drugs in societies around the world more than ever before. Why is it this way? Is it cheper to buy drugs today than 40 years ago? Or is it just easier to reach drugdealers who are selling drugs? I belive it is the last mentioned cause. That is why I also belive we must have stricter laws cocerning druguseing as well as drugdealing to make people stop use drugs. If you ask
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Youth crime has always been a concern in societies around the world. People try to determine the causes to which these problems stem from. This topic intrigued me‚ so I decided to write an essay on the question relating to this topic‚ "What are the social causes of youth crime?" The theory that I am going to examine and use to answer this question is the labeling theory. This theory is also known as the societal reaction theory. The labeling theory will often examine the offender in the situation
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Runaway youth is a serious problem that America faces today. Whether it’s just a youth’s way of trying to hurt their parent’s feelings‚ threating to run away is no laughing matter. Sometimes it’s not a threat to run away‚ sometimes they leave unannounced leaving the parent usually with grief‚ anger‚ and confusion. Between 1.6-2.8 million youth run away each year in the United States (The Truth About Runaway Teens‚ 2013). Those numbers are just the numbers of youth running away. Even when a youth runs
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Violence In Sports and Its Effect on Youth In America Today Justin Braman Southern Adventist University Sociology and Psychology of Sport Professor Rod Bussey December 10‚ 2013 The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of violence in sports. More specifically‚ the effect of violence in sports towards youth. As Jay Coakley (2009) points out in his book Sports in Society‚ when athletes engage in violence on or off the field‚ people see
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Kenneth Jenkins Drug overdose was responsible for 38‚329 deaths in the US in 2010. US overdose deaths have increase the past 11 years. In 2010 is the third year in a row the number of US citizens whose deaths were related exceeded the number of fatalities in road traffic accidents. Over the last decade opioids analgesic overdoses have claimed over 125‚000 lives. The definition of an overdose is the accidental or intentional use of a drug or medicine in an amount that is higher than normally
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express feelings through their words on paper. However‚ there are quite a few rap artists that get criticized for their lyrics. In my essay‚ I want to discuss why rappers use certain lyrics in their music and why people shouldn’t believe that it causes violence among the younger generations. People shouldn’t censor the music just because of violent‚ vulgar and abusive messages it promotes to the world. I believe in my own mind‚ that there is a reason for these types of lyrics that rap artists use and
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DRUG ABUSE AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM AMONG YOUTH Drug abuse is now surprisingly a major social problem that has sprouted out and is greatly harming our economy. Drug abuse in my own opinion is when drugs are not taken at the right time or in correct proportions. However‚ one can only limit drug abuse to taking hard drugs such as cocaine‚ nicotine‚ marijuana‚ etc. This is the kind of drug abuse that has a huge influence on the youth of today.
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Reasons for Youth Gun Violence In 1988‚ handguns killed 7 people in Great Britain‚ 13 in Australia‚ 8 in Canada‚ and 8‚915 in the United States. Between 1973 and 1992‚ the number of privately-owned firearms in the US increased 73%; from 122 million to nearly 222 million. (Brennen and Polsby 1). These figures are shocking and there doesn ’t seem to be a solution. Gun control is a problem that our country has got to face. The reasons for gun violence are complex and apparently deep-rooted with an
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special emphasis on the youth. I in the Affirmative believe that tv is doing much more harm to our society than good‚ and I will prove that to you in this debate. I will prove this by focusing on 2 key arguments: tv has unacceptable levels of sex and violence that cause harm to viewers‚ and is a significant tool of rampant commercialization‚ which victimizes its viewers. As the 1st round for the Affirmative‚ I will focus on how tv has unacceptable levels of sex and violence‚ while in my 2nd round
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